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POST-WAR PLANNING ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 


Prepared by 

Post-War Planning Information Section 
Public Inquiries Division 
Bureau of Special Operations 
U 5 ( OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION. /W ru^r 
November 1942 




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Department of Agriculture.1 

Board of Economic Warfare . 5 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. ... 7 

Department of Commerce.9 

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs . 13 

Federal Security Agency . 15 

Federal Works Agency.17 

Department of Labor.19 

U. S. Maritime Commission.23 

National Housing Agency . 25 

National Resources Planning Board . 29 

Selective Service System.31 

Department of State.-.33 

Department of the Treasury.35 


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


Claude A. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture 


The organizational unit concerned with post-war planning 
is the Interbureau Coordinating Committee on Post-War Planning, 
Raymond C. Smith, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, is chairman 
of the Committee and the members are: \ 

Samuel B. Bledsoe, Office of the Secretary 

Joseph L, Orr, Agricultural Adjustment Administration 

Mordecai Ezekiel, Office of the Secretary 

C. C. Farrington, Commodity Credit Corporation 

Norman L. Gold, Surplus Marketing- Administration 

Charles E, Kellogg, Bureau of Plant Industry 

M. L. Wilson, Extension Service 

Raymond E, Marsh, Forest Service 

David Meeker, Office of Agricultural War Relations 

John R. Mohler, Bureau of Animal Industry 

Melville Cohee, Soil Conservation Service 

0. E. Reed, Bureau of Dairy Industry 

Morse Salisbury, Office of Information 

Ralph R. Shaw, Library, Department of Agriculture 

Harry Slattery, Rural Electrification Administration 

Louise Stanley, Bureau of Home Economics 

Robert A. Walker, Office of Budget and Finance 

C. W. Warburton, Farm Credit Administration 

Ernest Wiecking, Office of Land Use Coordination 

Bonney Youngblood, Office of Experiment Stations 

James Maddox, Federal Security Agency 

Leroy K. Smith, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

The Committee was originally organized on May 31, 1941, 
under the title "Interbureau Coordinating Committee on Post- 
Defense Programs". It was organized pursuant to the instructions 
of the Secretary of Agriculture as set forth in the Secretary's 
Memorandum No. 913. In this Memorandum, Secretary Wickard said 
in part: "In some quarters there is a fear that a severe economic 
depression is inevitable when the defense effort ceases. The 
Department of Agriculture does not share this pessimism. We 
believe the country need never go through a major economic 


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depression again. We visualize a postwar world in which we will 
make full use of our man power and our resources for the benefit 
of the American people. We believe it is possible to maintain a 
national Income greater than ever before in the history of the 
nation. 


"It is in this setting that the Department should make its 
contribution in planning for the kind of world we wish to live 
in when the peace comes. If we plan soundly and courageously, 
if we enlist the help of the greatest possible number of people 
in making these plans, we can build an economy which will offer 
everybody a fair chance for work and security. Planning for 
this kind of future is part of the defense effort itself. . ." 

The Interbureau Committee has no separate appropriation or 
allotment and operates by requesting assistance from the regular 
bureaus and offices of the Department of Agriculture. 

Through the Committee's work, the Department is giving 
attention to planning to meet problems which will probably be 
confronting agriculture immediately after the war and also in the 
longer post-war period. Consideration is being given to programs 
for physical resources conservation and development, production 
and marketing, agricultural-industrial relations, rural housing, 
health, rural electrification, and other problems. The members 
of the Interbureau Committee work v/ith the chairmen of the nine 
regional post-war planning committees. The nine regions and the 
respective regional chairmen are as follows: 


Northeast Region 

Appalachian Region 

Southeast Region 

Midwest Region 

Great Plains Region 
South Central Region 
Southwest Intermountain 
Region 

Calif omia-Nevada 
Region 

Pacific Northwest 
Region 


W. S. Middaugh, Regional Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics Representative 
Richard E. McArdle, Director, Appala¬ 
chian Forest Service 
Thomas S. Buie, Regional Conservator, 
Soil Conservation Service 
Gladwin E. Young, Regional Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics Representative 
Elmer A. Starch, Regional Coordinator 
E. R. Henson, Regional Coordinator 
Maurice M. Kelso, Vice Chairman 

Laurence I. Hewes, Regional Director, 
Farm Security Administration 
Lyle F. Watts, Regional Forester, 

Forest Service 


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The Interbureau Committee on Post-War Planning has been 
actively cooperating with the National Resources Planning 
Board and other Federal agencies concerned with post-war 
planning. 

The Committee prepares pamphlets from time to time. One of 
these, a general introduction, and two statements on agricul¬ 
tural-industrial relations have been released for public 
distribution. 


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BOARD OF ECONOMIC WARFARE 


Milo Perkins, Executive Director 


The Reconstruction Section, Louis Bean, Chief, is concerned 
with post-war planning for the Board of Economic Warfare. 

The Board is primarily a war agency and is chiefly occupied 
at present with current war problems. However, the nature of 
many of the functions of the Board is such that they must be 
planned on a long-term basis, continuing beyond the war period. 

Executive Order 8839 of July 30, 1941» whioh established the 
Board, states that it shall be one of the Board's duties to "make 
investigations and advise the President on the relationship of 
economic defense....measures to post-war economic reconstruction 
and on the steps to be taken to protect the trade position of the 
United States and to expedite the establishment of sound, peace¬ 
time international economic relationships". 

The Board's work is primarily in the international field, 
and is carried on with the cooperation of the Department of State, 
the Federal Reserve Board, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Commerce, the Treasury, Lend-Lease, the War Production Board, and 
others working in related fields. 

Publications: None. 


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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 


Mariner S. Eccles, Chairman 


The organizational unit concerned with post-war planning 
is the Division of Research and Statistics of the Board, in 
which a post-war planning unit is operating under the direction 
of Alvin H. Hansen, Special Economic Advisor to the Board of 
Governors. 

The work of this unit was started in the summer of 1940. 

The work in post-war planning was undertaken as a part of 
the general functions of the Division of Research and Statistics, 
which is charged with the study and analysis of substantially 
all matters relating to the stability of the economy in general 
and to the functioning of the financial system in particular. 

The work is financed by the Federal Reserve System in the 
usual way (without appropriation of public funds) as a part of 
the recognized work of the Division of Research and Statistics. 

The particular phases of post-war planning undertaken thus 
far are: 


1. Fiscal and monetary policies; 

2. Overall surveys of public investment programs, domestic 
and international; 

3. Problems of Federal-State-local taxation; 

4. Inter-American and American-British economic collaboration. 

The staff members of the Division of Research and Statistics 
principally concerned with post-war planning are Alvin H. Hansen, 

Guy Greer, and Harvey S. Perloff. Dr. Hansen, who is in charge of 
all the work, is devoting particular attention to fiscal and 
monetary policies, Inter-American and American-British economic 
and trade relations, investment programs of a developmental charac¬ 
ter, both domestic and international, and problems of taxation. 

Guy Greer is working principally in the field of urban redevelopment 
and housing, but is actively participating also in studies of fiscal 
policies and international developmental programs. Harvey S. Perloff 


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is engaged principally in studies of Federal-State-local taxation, 
of river valley and regional developmental programs, and of 
transportation. Certain preliminary research programs have been 
completed, among them studies of urban redevelopment and housing, 
overall fiscal policies, American-British and Canadian-American 
economic and trade relations, and river valley development. On 
the whole, these programs are of a continuing nature and are still 
in process. Studies will also be made of other fields of public 
investment including international development programs. 

The Board cooperates with other agencies working on similar 
or complementary programs by means of informal consultation and 
collaboration. Such cooperation is particularly close with such 
agencies as the National Resources Planning Board, the Bureau of 
the Budget, the Board of Economic Warfare, the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics, the National Housing Agency, the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, the Treasury, and the Department of Commerce. They are also 
working in close cooperation with a number of non-governmental 
agencies such as the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National 
Association of Real Estate Boards, the National Planning Association, 
and various groups and individuals, notably David C. Prince of the 
General Electric Company. Dr. Hansen is also an informal consultant 
of the National Resources Planning Board, as.well as being the 
American Chairman of the Joint Economic Coinmittees of Canada and 
the United States. 

No publications on post-war planning have been issued by the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; however, certain 
results of the Board’s post-war planning work have been made 
available through other publications as follows: "After the War — 

Full Employment", published by the National Resources Planning 
Board; "Britain’s Trade in the Post-War World" and "Urban Rede¬ 
velopment and Housing" which are Planning Pamphlets Numbers 9 and 
10, respectively, of the National Planning Association; "The Federal 
Debt and the Future" by Alvin H. Hansen and Guy Greer, Harper’s 
magazine, April 1942; "The 1942 Economic Tasks of the Post-War 
World" by Alvin H. Hansen and Charles P. Kindleberger in Foreign 
Affairs. April 1942; "We Can Pay the War Bill" by Alvin H. Hansen, Atlantic 
Monthly . October 1942, and "Toward Full Utilization of Our Resources", 
Fortune. November 1942, by Alvin H. Hansen and Guy Greer. 


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 


Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce 


Two units of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 
are engaged in post-war planning: The International Economics 
Unit, Amos E. Taylor, Chief, and the National Economics Unit, 

S. Morris Livingston, Chief. These are both regular units of 
the Bureau and were not established for the purposes of post-war 
planning; however, the nature of their work is such that it 
involves the consideration of post-war problems. 

The International Economics Unit is part of a division 
largely devoted to servicing the Board of Economic Warfare, and 
it naturally follows that consideration of the broader problems 
of international economic relations in war-time requires the 
projection of certain relevant studies into the post-war period. 
Problems of broad international scope fall within the functions 
of this Unit, as contrasted with the more specialized problems 
covered by the geographical units of the Division of International 
Economy. No individuals are specifically assigned to post-war 
planning; various members of the staff have assignments from 
time to time which fall into that category. One of the primary 
studies is directed chiefly toward an evaluation of those factors 
inherent in the United States economy which tend to influence 
the country’s international and financial position and are there¬ 
fore certain to be of great significance after the war. Two others 
are designed to provide an appraisal of the economic and finan¬ 
cial rehabilitation efforts during the 1920's by the League of 
Nations and by other international bodies. The fields of operation 
of bilateral and multilateral international boards and commissions 
during the present war and the possible subsequent usefulness 
of such types of international collaboration also constitute the 
basis of a special study. On the whole, it may be said that the 
Unit’s studies are concerned primarily with laying’ the ground¬ 
work for post-war economic reconstruction and are not to be viewed 
as blueprints of a post-war economic system. 

The chief function of the National Economics Unit is to 
work on domestic economic problems. Such work at the present 
time almost invariably raises post-war questions. Furthermore, 


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the Unit is making every effort to stimulate planning by business 
and industry, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, 
looking toward the maintenance of a high level of productive 
employment after the war. One phase of the Unit's work in this 
connection is the analysis of post-war markets for goods and services, 
indicating to what extent these markets will be expanded above the 
pre-war level if we are successful in achieving maximum employ¬ 
ment after the war. This study on a national level serves as a 
background for more detailed analyses of the markets for the 
products of particular companies, industries, or communities. The 
Unit expects to cooperate in such analyses, although the primary 
responsibility must necessarily fall on these companies, industries, 
and communities. Another phase of the work is the relationship of 
potential post-war markets to the potential output of goods with 
maximum employment, thus indicating the extent to which private 
enterprise can contribute toward maximum employment and the varying 
extent to which reliance must be placed in the several post-war 
’’periods" on public works programs or other stimuli. The relation¬ 
ship between the volume of savings to be expected with a high level 
of income and the volume of investment necessary to reach a comparable 
level of production and consumption is also being considered. 

The Unit is also concerned with the broad economics of the 
post-war situation and the difficulties which will have to be 
overcome if private enterprise is to make its full contribution, 
such as those arising from the need for speedy reconversion to 
peace-time production and the maintenance of consumer purchasing 
power during the transition. Over the longer range, there are 
"environmental" problems having to do with the conditions under 
which business operates and how these might be changed to encourage 
the production of more goods for more people at less cost. 

As stated above, the work in post-war planning undertaken 
by the International Economics Unit is essentially a part of the 
general program which the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 
carries on in collaboration with the Board of Economic Warfare. 

The National Economics Unit is giving considerable aid to business 
executives in their long-range planning both through individual 
consultations and through the recently organized Committee for 
Economic Development. The purpose of the latter Committee is "to 
develop means whereby industry and commerce will be in a position 
in the post-war period to make their f ull contribution to high 
and secure standards of living for people in all walks of life 
through maximum employment and high productivity in our domestic 
economy". The Unit is in turn relying upon business executives' 
knowledge of new products, new materials, new production techniques. 


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possible changes in price policy or distribution methods, and all 
of the internal industrial developments which will have an important 
bearing on post-war markets. In addition to its work with private 
enterprise, the Unit is cooperating with other agencies in the 
formulation of Government policies relating to post-war conditions. 
Other units in the Bureau, particularly the National Income Unit, 
are cooperating through developing data which, while not primarily 
intended for post-war planning, are highly useful in this connec¬ 
tion. 

Publications: 

Memoranda and Articles 

Bissell, Richard M., Jr., "The Anatomy of Public Spending”, 
Fortune. Vol. 25, Nos. 5 & 6 , May & June, 1942. 

The May article discusses implications of public spending as 
a permanent peacetime policy and concludes that the policy appro¬ 
priate to the years of the great depression may by no means be 
relevant to the situation at the conclusion of the war. The June 
article outlines possibilities for postwar private investment and 
consumption expenditures. Suggests possibility that immediate post¬ 
war problem may not be depression but boom. 


McCracken, Paul W., and Roose, Kenneth D., ”A Technique for 
Analysis of Private Investment Expenditures", July 15, 1942. Iso¬ 
lates investment which is an initiator of changes in income from 
investment which is derivative from income. 


_: "The Table on 

Investment Expenditures for Selected Years, 1929-1940, and Estimates 
for a Postwar Year". Methods developed in preceding releases on 
private investment expenditures used to present estimates of invest¬ 
ment expenditures in a postwar year. 


Addresses 


Upgren, Arthur R., "Discussion of Prospects*for and Problems 
of Business in the Postwar Period". Presented at the New Hampshire 
Bank Management Conference in Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5, 1942. 
Reprinted with a few minor changes in the Domestic Commerce Weekly . 
July 9, 1942. Analyzes favorable and unfavorable factors affecting 
business for the postwar period. 


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_: "Postwar Planning for American Industry". 

Paper delivered at the Midyear Convention of the American Marketing 
Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 13» 1942. Discusses factors 
which will determine whether private business activity will be 
sufficient to sustain the high level of national income flowing at 
the end of the war. 

_: "Raw Materials and Inter-American 

Solidarity". Addresses delivered at the Fifth Oklahoma International 
Relations Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, June 18, 1942. Reprinted 
in Foreign Commerce Weekly. July 4, 1942. Concludes that world-trade 
leadership on the part of the United States promises to promote a 
more prosperous world after termination of hostilities if vigorous 
measures are taken to balance our own national "production-consump¬ 
tion budget" at a high level. 

_: "A National Program for Private Business 

for the Postwar Years". Address presented at the Annual Meeting of 
the producers' Council, Detroit, Michigan, June 23, 1942. Reprints 
available from the Producers' Council, Inc., 815 15th Street, N.W., 
Washington, D. C. Discusses opportunity and obligation of business 
to develop a postwar program to take the place of war production. 
Summarizes possible measures for assuring the maintenance by business 
of a high level of activity in the postwar period. 

Livingston, S. Morris, "The Postwar Construction Market", an 
address presented at the Annual Meeting of the Producers' Council, 
Detroit, Michigan, June 23 > 1942. Reprints available from the 
Producers' Council, Inc., 815 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 
Analyzes the major contribution which the construction industry can 
make to the maintenance of full employment at high income levels at 
the conclusion of the war. 


_: "The Building Construction Industry and 

Our Postwar National Econony", an address presented before the 
Chicago Building Congress, Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1942. 
Emphasizes the importance of making preliminary plans now to meet 
post-war problems; discusses the probable post-war housing market. 


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OFFICE OF COORDINATOR OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS 


Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator 


This Office was established by Executive Order No. 8840, 
July 30, 1941. The Office is not primarily engaged in post¬ 
war planning, but because of the importance of post-war planning 
in the Government to the program of the Office, its personnel 
are constantly in touch with the work being done in this field. 

One of the designated functions of the Office is "to 
formulate, recommend and execute programs in the commercial and 
economic fields which, by effective use of governmental and 
private facilities, will further the commercial well-being of 
the Western Hemisphere". Such programs are necessarily of a 
continuing nature and carry over into the post-war period. 

John E. Lockwood, General Counsel, as director of the division 
responsible for research, reports, analysis, and reviews, is 
the officer in charge of consideration of post-war aspects of 
the program. The studies and activities concerning post-war 
problems that are engaged in by the Office are not considered 
as separate projects but are interwoven as an integral part of 
the general affirmative program of the Office. Current studies 
with respect to Latin American countries include such questions 
as their post-war position in world trade, their internal 
economic reorganization and industrial development as affected 
by the war, and the development of their health, education, 
immigration, and other welfare programs. 

The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs 
collaborates with and utilizes the facilities of all existing 
departments and agencies which perform functions and activities 
affecting inter-American cultural and commercial problems. 

Publications: None. 


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FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 


Paul V. .McNutt, Administrator 


The post-war planning work of the Federal Security Agency 
is under the direction of the Program Planning Committee, of 
which T. J. Woofter, Jr., Director of Research, is Chairman. 
Other members of the Committee are George E. Bigge, Social 
Security Board; Bess Goodykoontz, Office of Education; Aubrey 
Williams, National Youth Administration; G. St. J. Perrott, 
National Institute of Health; Charles Taylor, Civilian Conser¬ 
vation Corps; Mark A. McCloskey, Defense Health and Welfare 
Service; and M. L. Wilson, Assistant Director of Defense Health 
and Welfare in charge of nutrition. There are affiliated plan¬ 
ning committees within the various c.onstituent organizations 
of the Agency. 

The Program Planning Committee was organized in July 1941 
at the direction of the Federal Security Administrator. 

The work of the Program Planning Committee involves the 
consideration of problems of social security, youth, health, 
education, nutrition, and recreation. 

Staff assignments in the constituent organizations are 
made in accordance with the projects undertaken. Post-war 
researches and programs are not necessarily segregated from 
current planning. However, plans are being made for a number 
of programs appropriate to the post-war period which should be 
initiated at that time if not previously put into effect. These 
programs include the following: 

The amendments to the Social Security Act already recom¬ 
mended by the President 

The continuation in the demobilization period of a con¬ 
siderable part of the activity of the United States 
Employment Service 

The expansion and extension of grants-in-aid programs 
operating under the various units of the Agency 


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Revision of the rural hospital plan in terms of post-war 
needs 

The program for prevention of stream pollution and the 
proposal of sanitary engineering work prepared in coopera¬ 
tion with the National Resources Planning Board 

The development as a public health program of former 

WPA projects of mine sealing and malaria 

control 

Organization of a program of health education 

Integration of a nationalized school building program 

Promotion of education for special groups 

A special program worked out in collaboration with the 
National Resources Planning Board and other agencies working 
toward educational opportunity for men demobilized from the 
armed services and war industries 

Expansion of programs of physical and vocational rehabili¬ 
tation for disabled veterans and war workers 

Continuation of a recreation program after the war 

State-wide planning of library facilities 

The above listed projects are in various stages of completion; 
some have been actually formulated into proposed legislation and 
others are still in the preliminary or developmental stage. 

The Committee is cooperating with the National Resources Plan¬ 
ning Board, the Selective Service System, and other agencies 
concerned with or interested in the programs mentioned above. 

Publications: "Planning Schools for Tomorrow", Office of 
Education (in preparation). 


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FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY 


Maj. General Philip B. Fleming, U.S.A., Administrator 


Two principal types of activity have characterized the 
post-war planning work in the Federal Works Agency to date. 
These include long-range public works programming, and plans 
currently under way for post-war highway development. 

In the spring of 1941 a project known as the Public 
Work Reserve was set up in the Work Projects Administration 
under the joint sponsorship of the Federal Works Agency and 
the National Resources Planning Board. Sponsorship was with¬ 
drawn in March, 1942, and as of April 1 the project was taken 
over as an administrative function of the Federal Works Agency 
under the name of the Local Public Works Programming Office. 
However, there was no change in the essential function of the 
office, which was to assist local communities in the prepara¬ 
tion of six-year programs of essential public works to be 
undertaken after the war. Studies were made in cooperation 
with State, county and city officials of community needs and 
of community resources out of which construction could be 
financed. At the peak of operations some 600 persons were 
employed in the project, and 24 States and several hundred 
cities, towns, counties and other divisions of local govern¬ 
ment were cooperating. 

Funds for this activity were discontinued in July, 1942, 
and, accordingly, the work of the Local Public Works Pro¬ 
gramming Office was terminated as of July 20, leaving most 
of the local six-year programs uncompleted. Apparently it 
will not be possible for the Federal Works Agency to resume 
the work until its authority to do so has been clearly ex¬ 
pressed. At the direction of the President, the Agency has 
in preparation the draft of suggested legislation intended 
to effectuate this purpose* 

The Office of the General Counsel has in preparation a 
study entitled "A Comprehensive Program of Public Works to 
Facilitate War-to-Peace Conversion and Bninent Domain in 
Connection Therewith, Including Marginal Taking", which should 
soon be available in mimeographed form. This study also con¬ 
templates legislation in the special field described by the 
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 


Frances Perkin3, Secretary of Labor 


The post-war studies of the Department of Labor are centered 
largely in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of which A. F. Hinrichs 
is Acting Commissioner. A Postwar Division was established in this 
Bureau in the fall of 1941 as a result of action taken by Congress 
in appropriating funds to the Bureau for a "Study of Post-Defense 
Problems (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the 
Secretary of Labor to conduct studies relative to problems connected 
with labor likely to arise upon the termination of the existing emer¬ 
gent conditions in connection with defense activities throughout the 
United States, in cooperation with the National Resources Planning 
Board..." (Public Law 146—77th Congress, Chapter 269—1st Session.) 
Dal Hitchcock is Chief of the Postwar Division. 

The Bureau is studying those elements in the American economy, 
peacetime and war-born alike, which are likely to be crucial in de¬ 
veloping a program for reaching and maintaining national full employ¬ 
ment in the post-war era. An economic analysis of the basic units of 
our American economy—the industries and areas—is combined with an 
examination of those public policies which will affect the level of 
economic activity: tax and fiscal policy, policy with regard to the 
concentration of industry, health and social security legislation, 
public works, and the like. 

Problems of demobilization of manpower and reconversion of in¬ 
dustry in the period immediately following the war are of particular 
concern. An analysis of the probable magnitude of the manpower demo¬ 
bilization problem at the end of the war is being made, showing the 
number of persons to be demobilized from the armed forces, war produc¬ 
tion, and the war emergency establishments of the Federal Government, 
and the resulting number likely to be seeking new jobs within two years 
after the war ends. A revised occupation code is being prepared in 
cooperation with the Selective Service System to facilitate demobili¬ 
zation of the men in the armed forces into occupations for which they 
are best qualified. 

The Bureau is studying reconversion problems from both the in¬ 
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major types of industrial readjustment are being analyzed: expanded 
industries of basic supply, transportation, and communication; indus¬ 
tries formerly engaged in the manufacture of consumers' durable goods 
but now converted to war production; industries which have been cur¬ 
tailed or shut down during the war; specialized war industries; new 
industries of peacetime utility; and industries peculiarly related to 
wartime and post-war international commerce. In connection with the 
problems which will be met by particular areas after the war, a county 
by county analysis is being made of the 400 counties which account for 
more than 85 per cent of the Nation's manufacturing and mining employ¬ 
ment, and in which the impact of the war production program has centered. 
Reports take the form of working notebooks of economic and social data 
which will provide the Federal Government as well as local research and 
planning groups with a panorama of local conditions against which post¬ 
war readjustments will take place. 

The post-war activities listed above are directed toward achiev¬ 
ing full employment, but in these aspects of the work attention is pri¬ 
marily directed toward the immediate post-war period. Another phase of 
the work is concerned with an examination of the long-time problems 
which must be solved if we are to maintain a smoothly functioning peace¬ 
time economy. In the main, these problems are not new, and while the 
war has aggravated some of them, major responsibility for them cannot 
be laid at its door. 

The Bureau has adopted a two-fold approach in attacking these 
problems. On the one hand, it has sought to develop special analytical 
"tools” which will aid its own staff as well as other individuals and 
agencies working in this field. These tools include an input-output 
study, concerned with the basic analysis of mutual relationship between 
various branches of the American economy; a statistical report showing 
the size distribution of American business units in terms of wage earn¬ 
ers; a comparative analysis of the various estimates of elements in the 
gross national product, national income, capital formation, business and 
individual savings, offsets to savingd, income payments, purchasing power, 
consumer spending, etc.; and current tabulation of changes in labor force, 
employment, unemployment, industrial production, bank debits, income pay¬ 
ments, war funds authorized, obligated or spent, etc. Also of this nature 
are a file of current plans and proposals for the post-war period; com¬ 
pilations of major systematic tax analyses and proposals, and of plans 
and proposals in the fields of health, education and social security; 
and a memorandum defining the term "full employment" and outlining the 
administrative procedures required for determining when full employment 
exists. 


These tools as well as general research procedures are used in 


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assaying the factors requisite to a general economic environment for full 
employment in a free enterprise system. Two groups of problems have re¬ 
ceived major emphasis in this aspect of the work—monetary, fiscal, and 
related problems, and problems of industry structure. In the first cate¬ 
gory, studies have been undertaken of potential factors in the economy 
which might prevent a desirable balance of the flow of consumer »expenditur es, 
on the one hand, and of adequate investment on the other. Specific work 
in this field includes an analysis of the relation between aggregate con¬ 
sumer purchasing power and deliverable volume of consumer goods and ser¬ 
vices; a study of ways in which selected taxes and other fiscal mechanisms 
might be used as flexible devices for influencing aggregate consumer spend¬ 
ing and level of employment; a study of data on the relationship of public 
works and work programs to national full employment policy; a study of min¬ 
imum wage standards in relation to a full-employment program; and a study 
of critical aspects of post-war international trade and investment, espe¬ 
cially as they bear on factors in the domestic economy. 

The Postwar Division is analyzing also those forces in the economy 
which foster or deter the concentration of industry as they affect employ¬ 
ment. In this connection, analyses have been made of the advantages and 
disadvantages of independent enterprise in particular areas of economic 
life and the general conditions for its survival after the war; a file of 
monopolistic practices has been set up based on Federal Trade Commission 
cases; an analysis of the apparent degree of competition in different in¬ 
dustries has been undertaken; and a study is being made of the effects on 
industries of trade practices, trade associations, and labor unions. 

In the Division of Historical Studies of Wartime Problems surveys 
are being made of experience after the last war. A study of the experience 
of the automobile industry has been completed and one of the demobilization 
of the armed forces is nearing completion. 

In order to tie together the many phases of its work in a way which 
will make them as real as possible, the Bureau is making an analysis of 
what national full employment in time of peace could mean to the average 
American family. This report will indicate just what the standard of liv¬ 
ing of the typical family could be if the many problems, which the Bureau 
and others are studying, could be successfully solved. 

At the present time the bulk of the Postwar memoranda and reports 
are for internal office use or for the use of cooperating Federal 
agencies. 


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MARITIME COMMISSION 


Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman 


The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 provided for fostering the 
development and encouraging the maintenance of a United States 
merchant marine"(a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne 
commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and 
import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping 
service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such 
domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times, (b) capable 
of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or 
national emergency, (c) owned and operated under the United States 
flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, 
and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable 
types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with 
a trained and efficient citizen personnel." Responsibility for 
carrying out this policy as stated in the Act rests with the Mari¬ 
time Commission. The Commission is primarily occupied at present 
in working with the War Shipping Administration on the war-time 
merchant marine program, but many phases of this program have 
important post-war implications. 

The studies and projects concerning post-war planning in 
the Maritime Commission are generally concentrated in the Division 
of Economics and Statistics, of which Henry L. Deimel, Jr., is 
Director. The program of the Division at present consists primarily 
of making preliminary analyses and outlining the scope of the prob¬ 
lems to be met after the war. Inasmuch as shipping is a broad 
subject, involving both domestic and international considerations, 
the background work now being done must include a wide range of 
subjects, such as domestic employment in shipyards, employment 
aboard ships, coast-wise traffic and foreign trade. 

In the domestic field the Commission is considering the 
problems of private shipping companies.. The operating differential 
subsidy contracts with these companies have been suspended during 
the war due to the general requisition of vessels and their opera¬ 
tion under the War Shipping Administration. The Division of Economics 
and Statistics is giving attention to the post-war results of present 
developments affecting these companies. Consideration is also being 
given to the post-war implications of present trends in ship-building. 



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In the international field the Commission is considering trends 
in the shipping situation as a whole, post-war economic ahd commercial 
conditions which will affect essential trade routes, the status and 
composition of merchant fleets of the world, and probable opportunities 
for employing American ships in peace-time. The Commission is carefully 
observing what other countries, particularly Allied and neutral countries, 
are doing with respect to their merchant marines. For example, the 
British policy involves the sale of war-built ships to private operators 
in compensation for their losses and for post-war use, and the similar 
transfer of such ships to their Allies. 

The Maritime Commission's post-war plans for shipping are 
closely connected with those of related Government agencies. The Com¬ 
mission is also giving consideration to the probable influence on water 
transportation of developments in air transportation, both passenger 
and cargo, and the fields in which each is likely to be most efficient 
in terms of types of cargo, geographical considerations, etc., and is 
maintaining informal contact with the Civil Aeronautics Administration 
in this connection. 

Over the last twenty years the Maritime Commission and the 
Shipping Board which preceded it have published statistical reports 
of United States ocean commerce and shipping. Many of these reports 
are now out of print. They are now being reviewed with a view to 
the re-issue of summary statistics covering pre-war years,which will be 
useful in connection with post-war studies. 


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NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY 


John B. Blandford, Jr., Administrator 


The National Housing Agency was established by Executive Order 
in February 1942, bringing into one agency the Office of the Admin¬ 
istrator, the Federal Home Loan bank Administration, the Federal 
Housing Administration, and the Federal Public Housing Authority. 

While its planning activities are not primarily related to the post¬ 
war period, the Agency has responsibility for general urban develop¬ 
ment in so far as housing and related facilities are concerned; and 
such development is extremely important for post-war purposes. 

Office of the Administrator 

In the Office of the Administrator, urban development planning 
is studied in the Division of Urban Studies, the Technical Division, 
and the Research and Statistics Division, which are established by 
the Administrator under the authority of the Executive Order. Out¬ 
lines for study of post-war housing programs have been prepared, but 
no specific programs have as yet been completed. One of the objectives 
is the development of housing programs by agencies of local government. 

The Office of the Administrator is cooperating with other Federal 
agencies such as the National Resources Planning Board, the Federal 
Works Agency, and the Federal Reserve Board, as well as with the con¬ 
stituent organizations of the National Housing Agency. 

Federal Public Housing Authority 

The Federal Public Housing Authority was established by Executive 
Order as one of the three constituent units of the National Housing 
Agency. The FPHA is responsible for the administration of functions 
and duties with respect to public housing formerly vested in various 
Federal agencies, including the United States Housing Authority which 
was created as a corporation of perpetual duration to assist local 
public housing agencies in providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwell¬ 
ings for families who cannot be adequately housed by private enterprise. 
While the FPHA was not established to undertake post-war planning, it 
is now administering the Federally assisted long-term public housing 
program, and thus is concerned with post-war planning. 

The officers primarily engaged in this work are Warren Jay Vinton, 
Chief Economist, and Lawrence N. Bloomberg, Associate Chief Economist. 


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The FPHA cooperates in the post-war planning studies of the 
Office of the Administrator and other constituent agencies of the 
NHA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Resources Planning 
Board, and other Governmental agencies. 

Federal Housing Administration 

In its housing operations the Federal Housing Administration 
recognizes the necessity of studying the problem of urban redevelop¬ 
ment. In such studies it is necessary to take into consideraiion 
the fact that execution of any plans or programs for large-scale 
rebuilding of cities will have to be postponed until after the war; 
consequently the post-war planning the FHA is doing is essentially a 
part of its regular planning and research work. FHA is concerned 
with the maintenance of a sound home mortgage market and the improve¬ 
ment of housing standards. The regular operations of its underwriting, 
technical, research end statistics divisions, and such special studies 
as are undertaken by planning experts on its 3taff, are directed 
towards this end. 

The chief administrative officer responsible for post-wer planning 
is Earle S. Draper, Deputy Commissioner, and the staff working full or 
part time on post-war problems includes Frederick Bigger, City Planner; 
Paul Oppermann, City Planner; Herbert S. Colton, Attorney; and 
William K. Wittausch, Housing Economist, with occasional assistance 
from members of divisions previously mentioned. 

Means for Implementing plans are being studied to arrive at methods 
of operation which will adapt FHA's mortgage insurance activities to the 
work of the NHA in post-war activity. 

As a constituent agency of the NHA, the FHA ha3 cooperated with the 
Office of the Administrator, as well as other constituent agencies, and 
has taken part in special committee activities which included staff members 
of the National Resources Planning Board and the Federal Reserve Board. 

Federal Home Loan Bank Administration 

In keeping wihh the requirements of the several programs in which 
they are engaged, the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration and its 
component agencies, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the Federal 
Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and the Home Owners Loan Corpo¬ 
ration, maintain a continuing study of conditions in the fields of 
thrift and home mortgage finance. Increasing attention is being given 


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to the problems and opportunities of the post-war period, and of 
the contribution the Administration and its agencies and associated 
savings and loan associations can make to the post-war economy. No 
special unit has been organized for this purpose, nor have any special 
projects of a research or planning character been undertaken. The 
consideration of post-war problems, programs, and policies has thus 
far been carried on by the regular staff as a part of its normal 
operating functions. 

Publications 

The Division of Urban Studies of the Office of the Administrator 
has published "A Bibliography on Post-War Housing and Urban Development” 
(Bulletin No. 4), September 1, 1942. Abstracts have been made of the 
more recent material. 

"A Handbook on Urban Redevelopment for Cities in the United States" 
was published by the Federal Hodsing Administration in November 1941. 
































NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD 


Frederic A. Delano, Chairman 
Charles E. Merriam. 

George F. Yantis 
Charles W. Eliot, Director 


The post-war planning work of the National Resources Planning 
Board is the concern of the whole staff of the organization. The 
Post-War Agenda Section in the Director's Office acts as a central 
service agency for the staff and cooperating, agencies on po3t-var 
planning. The Staff members particularly concerned with direction 
of the post-war aspects of the Board's program are Mr. Eliot and 
the Assistant Directors, Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr., Frank W. Herring 
and Ralph J. Watkins, and Luther Gulick, Consultant. 

The legal foundation for the work of the National Resources 
Planning Board is in the Federal Employment Stabilization Act of 
1931* This Act gives to the Board the responsibility to advise the 
President from time to time about the trend of employment and the 
"existence or approach of periods of business depreciation and un¬ 
employment". The Act also states that it is the policy of Congress 
"to arrange the construction of public works so far as practicable 
in such a manner as will assist in the stabilization of industry 
and employment through the proper timing of such construction, and 
to further tiis objective thre shall be advanced planning, in¬ 
cluding preparation of deteiled construction plans of public works 
by the construction agencies and the Board". On the basis of this 
authorization, and by reason of its continual consideration of the 
long-term aspects of the utilization of national resources, the 
Board from the beginning of the defense emergency gave attention to 
the problems that will follow the completion of the war* program. 

It organized a series of conferences of the administrative heads of 
Federal agencies concerned with such problems. In November 19^0 the 
Board was requested by the President to undertake a study of what 
was then called post-defense planning. In a memorandum to the Board, 
dated January 4, 1941, the President said: "I am glad to know that 
the Board is proceeding with the development of plans and. proposals 
for the post-defense period. These plans will, of course, involve 
many Federal agencies and cooperation with State and local govern¬ 
ments and private citizens, and. I hope all executive agencies of the 
Government will assist you in correlating proposals for my consid¬ 
eration". 

The Board's role as a central clearing house for planning nec¬ 
essarily gives it a very broad interest, and its studies cover prac¬ 
tically all fields. Through a series of conferences with Federal 


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officials, state and. local planning agencies, industrialists, labor 
leaders, and professional groups, and with the help of special con¬ 
sultants, various aspects of the problem are being explored, and 
specific projects, committees, and studies have been set up. A 
Post-War Agenda has been prepared to relate the work of public and 
private organizations in planning for post-war readjustments. There 
is work under way involving cooperative relations with Federal, re¬ 
gional, state, local, and private agencies in the fields of fiscal 
policy, science and research, employment and social security, health 
and education, urban redevelopment, energy resources, industrial 
location, transportation, land and water resources. A program of 
Federal works projects is made jointly with the Bureau of the.Budget, 
and assistance given to states and municipalities in the preparation 
of a shelf of non-Federal works suitable for use in the immediate 
post-war period. The work of the Committees on Transportation, Land, 
Water, Energy Resources, Science and Long-Range Work and Relief Pol¬ 
icies is related closely to the post-war planning activities of Federal 
departments whose representatives are members of the Committees. 

Through its regional offices the Board is initiating a series of pro¬ 
jects to prepare, with the assistance of local, state and Federal field 
agencies, post-war plans for the conversion to peace-time activities of 
selected areas throughout the country. 

In addition to these cooperative activities, many sections of the 
Board are carrying on specific post-war studies within the organization. 
Examples of current studies are: the study of War-Time Planning for 
Continuing Full Employment, an analysis of consumer demands in terms of 
a post-war economy of high national income, basing its estimates on 
probable post-war economic factors, and suggesting policies necessary 
to produce full employment at a high income level; study of problems 
of the post-war adjustment of industry, including possibilities of con¬ 
version to peacetime production of specific war plants; and studies by 
the Urban Section dealing with urban planning procedures, with new forms 
of government organization for metropolitan areas, and with taxation and 
revenue in cities. 

The Board's publications include a pamphlet series of which five 
titles, "After Defense--What?", "After the War--Full Employment", 

"Better Cities", "The Role of the Housebuilding Industry", and "Post- 
War Planning" together with their annual report, "National Resources 
Development, 19^2" are now available. Other pamphlets and publications 
are in preparation. 


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SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 


Major General Lewis B. Hershey, 0. S. A., Director 


The organizational unit primarily concerned with post¬ 
war planning is the Reemployment Division,of which Colonel Lewis 
Sanders, U. S. A., is Chief. 

Authorization for the work of this Division is contained 
in Section 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 
approved September 16, 1940. 

The Division was informally established in October 1940 
and formally organized about December 1, 1940. 

The work of this Division includes both current and post¬ 
war problems. It is of course primarily a war agency, but its 
function is continuing and will extend into the peace period. The 
Division’s programs deal principally with ascertaining and recording 
the occupational and educational background and experience of the 
men in the armed services, to which are added their military records. 
The Division is also responsible for setting up agencies throughout 
the country to handle the cases of -these men as they arise. The 
principal objectives of the Division are to assure the return of men 
to former jobs or to secure employment for them before the date of 
their discharge from the Armed Forces. This will involve,among 
other things, planning for demobilization in terms of potential 
employment in certain locations and at certain times. The Division 
will operate under a decentralized system through the medium of local 
voluntary reemployment committees affiliated with each local Selective 
Service Board. It will be the function of these committees to make 
contact with the service men assigned to them and give them a personal 
representative with whom they can take up their employment problems; 
this will serve both to decentralize and distribute the work and to 
improve the morale of the soldier and his family by making them feel 
that there is a definite person interested in securing employment for 
each soldier,in place of the feeling that the man is merely a serial 
number ih a vast card index. 

Clearing House Committees are also being established at 
National, State and town levels. These Committees are made up of 


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representatives of all important civic organizations,for the 
purpose of coordinating their activities and through them 
placing the entire community behind those problems of reem¬ 
ployment of returned members of the Armed Forces which are 
difficult of adjustment through ordinary channels, or for men 
for whom jobs cannot be found through the U. S. Employment 
Service. 


One of the functions of the Division is to act as a 
coordinating and liaison agency between other Government depart¬ 
ments and the Armed Forces for the procurement of data required 
by these Departments concerning men in the service, such as that 
required by the Social Security Board in order to freeze unem¬ 
ployment benefits. The purpose of this is to minimize inter¬ 
ference to the work of the Armed Forces by having a single agency 
for requesting data, a single point for securing it and, as far 
as possible, all recorded on a single form. The Division has 
active coordination with the following agencies: United States 
Employment Service; Veteran? Administration; War Department; 

Surgeon General’s Office, War Department; Navy Department; 

Surgeon General's Division, Navy Department; Department of 
Agriculture; Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; 

Bureau of the Census; War Manpower Commission; American Red Cross; 
National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. Activities 
are carried on through the regular operating officials of all of the 
above mentioned agencies. 

Publications: None. 




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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 


Cordell Hull, Secretary of State 


Several divisions of the Department of State are concerned 
with post-war planning, in particular the Division of Special 
Research and the Office of the Geographer. 

The Division of Special Research, of which Leo Pasvolsky 
is Chief, is making studies in the field of international relations 
including the economic, political and social trends to be taken into 
account in considering the problems of the peace. This Division also 
serves as coordinating office for the post-war planning work done by 
various other divisions and committees within the Department. 

The Office of the Geographer, under S. W. Boggs, Geographer 
of the Department, includes among its activities the preparation of a 
series of world maps, supplemented by continent maps in some cases, 
designed to visualize and clarify problems of international relation¬ 
ships. The principal phases of the work which are related to post¬ 
war planning are geographical research, by areas and subject, and 
the preparation of world maps to include population distribution and 
total population, and by languages and religions, transportation and 
communication costs and speeds, agriculture, minerals and mining, 
inanimate energy, and political geography. 

The Division of Special Research cooperates with other 
Federal agencids working in the field of international relations, 
such as the Board of Economic Warfare, the Coordinator of Inter- 
American Affairs, the Treasury Department, and others. The Office 
of the Geographer works with appropriate agencies in the preparation 
of maps, for example, the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, 
and the Bureau of Mines. 

Many statements by officials of the Department dealing with 
post-war planning have been published in the Department of State 
Bulletin, among them the followings 

"Business Works To Win The War", address by Assistant Secretary 
Berle before the National Dry Goods Association, New York City, 
January 15, 1942 — Bulletin , January 17, 1942 

"The Problem of Economic Peace After the War", address by Mr. Leo 
Pasvolsky before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ 
in America, Delaware, Ohio, March 4, 1942 

— Bulletin , March 7, 1942 


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Radio Address by Assistant Secretary Berle in Commemoration of 
the Second Anniversary of the Invasion of the Netherlands, 
Belgium and Luxembourg, broadcast from New York City, 

May 10, 1942 — Bulletin , May 16, 1942 

"Why Are We Fighting & For Vfaat", address by Mr. Stanley K. 
Hombeck before the International Relations Club, University 
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 21, 1942 

— Bulletin , May 23, 1942 

Memorial Day address of Under Secretary Welles at Arlington 
National Amphitheater, May 30, 1942 

— Bulletin , May 30, 1942 

"Our Education, This War & Essentials of Peace", commencement 
address by Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck at Utah State Agricultural 
College, Logan, Juno 1, 1942 

— Bulletin , June 6, 1942 

"Building In War For Peace", address by Assistant Secretary 
Achescn before the Institute of Public Affairs, University 
of Virginia, July 6, 1942 

— Bulletin , July 11, 1942 

"The War and Human Freedom", address by Secretary Hull, broadcast 
over all networks, July 23, 1942 

— Bulletin , July. 25, 1942 

Address by Under Secretary Welles before World Trade Dinner, 
October 8, 1942 — Bulletin , October 10, 1942 

"British-American Trade Relations After the War", address by Mr. 
Harry C. Hawkins before 29th National Foreign Trade Convention, 
October 9> 1942 — Bulletin . October 10, 1942 

"The Realist Base of American Foreign Policy", address by 
Assistant Secretary Berle before Alabama State Chamber of 
Commerce, October 15, 1942 

— Bulletin , October 17, 1942 


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TREASURE DEPARTMENT 


Henry A. Morgentbau, Jr., 


Secretary of the Treasury 


Three divisions of the Treasury Department are interes¬ 
ted in post-war planning — the Division of Monetary Research, 

H. D. White, Director; the Division of Tax Research, Roy Blough, 
Director; the Division of Research & Statistics, George C. ttEuia, 
Director. These are all regular divisions of the Department and 
are not primarily engaged in post-war planning as such; however, 
they are engaged in research projects the nature of which involves 
consideration of problems of the post-war period. 

The Division of Research and Statistics is concerned, among 
other things, with problems involved in the formulation of Treas¬ 
ury fiscal policy, especially as it relates to the war borrowing 
program. Since this program, on the scale required, is bound to 
have a far-reaching influence upon the pattern of economic and 
financial activity in the post-war era, the Division is giving 
attention to the effects which may be expected from the various 
possible solutions to present fiscal problems. Particular study 
is being given to the post-war effects of utilizing different 
sources of funds for financing the war. The results of these 
studies are for the use of Treasury officials, and are therefore 
confidential except as they may be specifically released by the 
Department, or certain data may be included in regular Treasury 
publications. 

The Division of Monetary Research includes among its respon¬ 
sibilities the management of the Exchange Stabilization I\ind and 
other matters in the international field with which the Treasury 
is concerned. Since the outbreak of war, this Division has ex¬ 
tended its work to include problems arising from the war which 
come within the same general fields as its peacetime research 
and has, as a matter of course, undertaken some continuing studies 
of post-war problems. There is no specific designation of staff 
for the purpose of post-war planning; various staff members from 
time to time give their attention to such problems. The principal 
post-war studies being carried on in this Division relate to the 
problems of exchange stabilization and post-war economic recon¬ 
struction and development. Resolution XV of the Rio Conference 
committed the signatory countries to a conference of finance 
ministers looking toward the establishment of an international 
exchange stabilization fund. It was and still is the thought 
that such a fund should be planned so as to be open to all friendly 
countries. The Division is currently studying the types of inter¬ 
national institutions which might undertake the tasks of exchange 
stabilization and post-war reconstruction and development. 


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The Division of Tax Research is giving attention to the 
long-run aspects of fiscal problems, particularly the need 
for a Federal revenue system which can he readily adjusted 
to the nation’s post-war requirements. The Division is also 
cooperating in a study of Federal-State fiscal relations, 
conducted by a temporary Committee on Inter-governmental 
Fiscal Relations, appointed *by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
This Committee i6 considering the question whether the over¬ 
all fiscal system is well suited to the attainment of such 
non-fiscal ends as full employment and maximum national in¬ 
come. The techniques which may best serve to meet the probable 
fiscal responsibilities of the post-war period are being con¬ 
sidered, and complaints against lack of coordination in the tax 
system and the remedies offered are being thoroughly reviewed* 
This work is under the direction of Earold M. Groves* 

The Division of Monetary Research has represented the 
Treasury on various inter-departmental committees dealing with 
economic and financial matters, 3uch as the Trade Agreements 
Conmittee, the State Department’s committee studying post-war 
problems, and the Board of Economic Warfare, in connection 
with the more specific and detailed study of exchange stabi¬ 
lization. The Division is also working with an inter-depart¬ 
mental committee assembled by Secretary Morgenthau. 


Publications: None 












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